Kentucky Center’s Arts in Healing Program to be Featured on Kentucky Homefront, 3/10

The Kentucky Center's Arts in Healing program will be featured on an upcoming live radio taping of "Kentucky Homefront." The public is invited to attend this special event happening on Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Clifton Center (2117 Payne Street). Doors open at 7 p.m.

This taping will represent a collaboration between "Kentucky Homefront" and the Kentucky Center's Arts in Healing program, which brings various art forms to area healthcare facilities to aid in the process of healing and recuperation. Show host John Gage, an Arts in Healing artist himself, invited other Arts in Healing artists to help communicate the important work of the program and its impact on health throughout the community. "Kentucky Homefront" and the Kentucky Center both share the mission of supporting regional and local artists and building community through the power of the arts and established this event to provide an opportunity for the audience to explore the vital connection between creativity and healing.

"Kentucky Homefront" is a radio show featuring Kentucky's finest acoustic folk, traditional, blues, country, and bluegrass musicians, and its best storytellers. Our front porch broadcasts are reminiscent of radio variety programs of a bygone era. Hosted by John Gage, Kentucky Homefront is recorded on the 2nd Saturday of every month (except January and July). Kentucky Homefront's mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate live grassroots music and storytelling traditions of the rich and diverse cultures of Kentucky and its surrounding states.

The March 10 taping will feature four artists associated with the Kentucky Center's Arts in Healing program, including Gregory Acker, Cynthia Changaris, John Gage and Lorinda Jones. Arts in Healing is an international movement aimed at infusing arts into healthcare settings and healing efforts in a way that is uplifting for caregivers, patients, their families and visitors, according to the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Kentucky Center's Arts in Healing program is made possible with support from The Humana Foundation and the Kentucky Center for the Arts Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by The Community Foundation of Louisville, The Jamie Parsley Family Foundation and WHAS Crusade for Children. It focuses on developing artist residencies and programs to bring instrumental music, vocal music, storytelling, dance, drama, and the visual arts to patients in local healthcare facilities, including Our Lady of Peace, Nazareth Home, The Robley Rex VA Medical Center, Frazier Rehabilitation Institute, Movement Disorder Clinic, Volunteers of America, The James Graham Brown Cancer Center, and the Home of the Innocents.

Tickets for the taping are $12, and are available at the door beginning 30 minutes prior to the show at Clifton Center. Seating is general admission.

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